A Sderot cab driver hit the gas pedal and reached a bomb shelter 50 feet away when he heard the 20-second warning siren that a Kassam rocket was about to crash. He and his passengers reached the bomb shelter just as the rocket exploded, blowing away all the windows of the vehicle.
"The driver reached the shelter and ran out of the cab, opened the doors and ordered everyone out," said one of the passengers. "He told the elderly and the children to get out first and then the rest of us ran. The same second we reached the shelter, there was a boom that left the cab heavily damaged."
The passengers were hysterical, several were treated for shock, but there were no physical injuries.
The Kassam rocket was the 14th that hit the Sderot area, but only one of them struck the city itself near the taxi cab.
Another 16 rockets hit as far north as Gedera, located east of Ashdod and less than 10 miles south of Rehovot. A three-month-old baby suffered light shrapnel wounds in the attack.